Williamsburg Event to Call for Removal of Judge in Brock Turner Case

EAST WILLIAMSBURG, BROOKLYN — The New York branch of GRLCVLT, a self-described "national secret society" for women, is training its sites on Judge Aaron Persky, the jurist who sentenced former Stanford University student Brock Turner to six months in prison for sexually assaulting a woman in 2015.

On Wednesday, GLRCVLT will host a party at Holyrad Studio where attendees can listen to music and write letters calling for Persky's removal, according to a Facebook announcement.

"We will have printed supplies and stamped, addressed envelopes," organizers wrote. "We will also have drinks and music because IT'S A PARTY."

The event will take place from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. at Holyrad Studio, located at 35 Meadow St. in East Williamsburg. Attendees must be 21 or older.

Live music will be performed by Beccs, FEATHERS+EYES, It Was Romance, Edith Pop and DJ Night Doll.

The flyer announcing Wednesday's event

In March, Brock was convicted of sexually assaulting an unconscious woman outside a Stanford fraternity house in January, 2015.

Brock claimed to have been under the influence of alcohol during the attack, but was convicted by a jury of three felony violations.

However, on June 2, Persky sentenced Brock to just six months in prison, even though his crimes carried a maximum sentence of ten years.

At the sentencing, the woman Brock attacked addressed him directly, reading a widely circulated statement published by Buzzfeed describing her ordeal in shocking detail.

"I don’t want my body anymore," she remembered thinking. "I was terrified of it, I didn’t know what had been in it, if it had been contaminated, who had touched it. I wanted to take off my body like a jacket and leave it at the hospital with everything else."

Jeff Rosen, the District Attorey for Santa Clara County, where Stanford is located, criticized the sentence, saying it "does not factor in the true seriousness of this sexual assault, or the victim's ongoing trauma."

Brock is now expected to spend just 3 months behind bars, assuming good behavior in prison.

As of June 14, an online petition calling for the California Assembly to initiate impeachment proceedings against Persky had garnered more than 1.2 million signatures.

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